Fall Cooking: 12 Classic Comfort Food Recipes

We can't help it. The cooler weather and shorter days make us want to hole up in the kitchen and cook things like beef and barley stew and chocolate chip cookies. All the classic comforts of our childhood. You too?

I grew up in the Midwest where comfort usually meant something starchy and cheesy. With a nice cookie for dessert. These are the recipes I grew up with: